My favourite albums from 2005

1. 50

   Catch Thirtythree

   Meshuggah

   

   

   Progressive metal | Avant-garde metal

   Tracks:

   1. Autonomy Lost
   2. Imprint of the Un-Saved
   3. Disenchantment
   4. The Paradoxical Spiral
   5. Re-Inanimate
   6. Entrapment
   7. Mind's Mirrors
   8. In Death — Is Life
   9. In Death — Is Death ●
   10. Shed
   11. Personae non gratae
   12. Dehumanization
   13. Sum

2. 49

   Themata

   Karnivool

   

   

   Progressive metal | Alternative metal

   Tracks:

   1. C.O.T.E.
   2. Themata ●
   3. Shutterspeed
   4. Fear of the Sky
   5. Roquefort
   6. Lifelike
   7. Scarabs
   8. Sewn and Silent
   9. Mauseum
   10. Synops
   11. Comitted for Clarity
   12. Change (Part 1)

3. 48

   The Black Halo

   Kamelot

   

   

   Power metal | Symphonic metal

   Tracks:

   1. March of the Mephisto
   2. When the Lights Are Down ●
   3. The Haunting (Somewhere in Time)
   4. Soul Society
   5. Interlude I — Dei Gratia
   6. Abandoned
   7. This Pain
   8. Moonlight
   9. Interlude II — Un assessinio molto silenzioso
   10. The Black Halo
   11. Nothing Ever Dies
   12. Memento Mori
   13. Interlude III — Midnight / Twelve Tolls for a New Day
   14. Serenade

4. 47

   The Unreal Never Lived

   YOB

   

   

   Doom metal | Sludge metal

   Tracks:

   1. Quantum Mystic ●
   2. Grasping Air
   3. Kosmos
   4. The Mental Tyrant

5. 46

   Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone

   Akercocke

   

   

   Death metal | Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. Verdelet
   2. Seduced
   3. Shelter from the Sand
   4. Eyes of the Dawn
   5. Abbandonna, Dying in the Sun
   6. Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone ●
   7. Intractable
   8. Seraphs and Silence
   9. The Penance
   10. Lex Talions

6. 45

   Mass III

   Amenra

   

   

   Atmospheric sludge metal

   Tracks:

   1. The Pain It Is Shapeless
   2. Némelèndèlle
   3. Am Kreuz ●
   4. Le fils des faux

7. 44

   Gravity X

   Truckfighters

   

   

   Stoner rock | Heavy psych

   Tracks:

   1. Desert Cruiser
   2. Gargarismo
   3. Momentum ●
   4. Freewheelin'
   5. The Deal
   6. Superfunk
   7. Subfloor
   8. Gweedo-Weedo
   9. Manhattan Project
   10. In Search of (The)
   11. Intermission
   12. A. Zapruder
   13. Altered State

8. 43

   In Your Honor

   Foo Fighters

   

   

   Alternative rock | Hard rock

   Tracks:

   1. In Your Honor
   2. No Way Back
   3. Best of You ●
   4. DOA
   5. Hell
   6. The Last Song
   7. Free Me
   8. Resolve
   9. The Deepest Blues Are Back
   10. End Over End
   11. Still
   12. What If I Do?
   13. Miracle
   14. Another Round
   15. Friend of a Friend
   16. Over and out
   17. On the Mend
   18. Virginia Moon
   19. Cold Day in the Sun
   20. Razor

9. 42

   Ten Thousand Fists

   Disturbed

   

   

   Heavy metal | Alternative metal

   Tracks:

   1. Ten Thousand Fists
   2. Just Stop
   3. Guarded
   4. Deify
   5. Stricken
   6. I'm Alive
   7. Sons of Plunder
   8. Overburdened
   9. Decadence
   10. Forgiven
   11. Land of Confusion ●
   12. Sacred Lie
   13. Pain Redefined
   14. Avarice

10. 41

    Enigmatic Calling

    Pagan's Mind

    

    

    Progressive metal | Power metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Celestine Prophecy
    2. Enigmatic Mission ●
    3. Supermacy, Our Kind
    4. Entrance to Infinity
    5. Coming Home
    6. Celestial Calling
    7. Taken
    8. Resurrection (Back in Time)
    9. Appearance
    10. Search for Life
    11. New World Order

11. 40

    Alien

    Strapping Young Lad

    

    

    Industrial metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Imperial
    2. Skeksis
    3. Shitstorm
    4. Love? ●
    5. Shine
    6. We Ride
    7. Possessions
    8. Two Weeks
    9. Thalamus
    10. Zen
    11. Info Dump

12. 39

    Chimaira

    Chimaira

    

    

    Groove metal | Metalcore

    Tracks:

    1. Nothing Remains
    2. Save Ourselves
    3. Inside the Horror
    4. Salvation ●
    5. Comatose
    6. Left for Dead
    7. Everything You Love
    8. Bloodlust
    9. Pray for All
    10. Lazarus

13. 38

    Mafia

    Black Label Society

    

    

    Heavy metal | Southern metal

    Tracks:

    1. Fire It up ●
    2. What's in You
    3. Suicide Messiah
    4. Forever Down
    5. In This River
    6. You Must Be Blind
    7. Death March
    8. Dr. Octavia
    9. Say What You Will
    10. Too Tough to Die
    11. Electric Hellfire
    12. Spread Your Wings
    13. Been a Long Time
    14. Dirt on the Grave

14. 37

    Masterpiece of Bitterness

    Sólstafir

    

    

    Post-metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. I Myself the Visionary Head ●
    2. Nature Strutter
    3. Bloodsoaked Velvet
    4. Lux Fare
    5. Ghosts of Light
    6. Ritual of Fire
    7. Nàttfari

15. 36

    Alaska

    Between the Buried and Me

    

    

    Progressive metal | Technical death metal | Progressive metalcore

    Tracks:

    1. All Bodies
    2. Alaska
    3. Croakies and Boatshoes
    4. Selkies: The Endless Obsession ●
    5. Breathe in, Breathe out
    6. Roboturner
    7. Backwards Marathon
    8. Medicine Wheel
    9. The Primer
    10. Autodidact
    11. Laser Speed

16. 35

    Separation Sunday

    The Hold Steady

    

    

    Post-punk revival | Heartland rock

    Tracks:

    1. Hornets! Hornets!
    2. Cattle and the Creeping Things
    3. Your Little Hoodrat Friend
    4. Banging Camp
    5. Charlemagne in Sweatpants ●
    6. Stevie Nix
    7. Multitude of Casualties
    8. Don't Let Me Explode
    9. Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night
    10. Crucifixion Cruise
    11. How a Resurrection Really Feels

17. 34

    Mighty ReArranger

    Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation

    

    

    Progressive rock | Worldbeat

    Tracks:

    1. Another Tribe
    2. Shine It All Around ●
    3. Freedom Fries
    4. Tin Pan Valley
    5. All the King's Horses
    6. The Enchanter
    7. Takamba
    8. Dancing in Heaven
    9. Somebody Knocking
    10. Let the Four Winds Blow
    11. Mighty ReArranger
    12. Brother Ray

18. 33

    Candlemass

    Candlemass

    

    

    Epic doom metal | Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. Black Dwarf
    2. Seven Silver Keys
    3. Assassin of the Light
    4. Copernicus
    5. The Man Who Fell from the Sky
    6. Witches
    7. Born in a Tank
    8. Spellbreaker ●
    9. The Day and the Night
    10. Mars and Volcanoes

19. 32

    The Gathering Wilderness

    Primordial

    

    

    Folk metal | Pagan black metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Golden Spiral
    2. The Gathering Wilderness ●
    3. The Song of the Tomb
    4. End of All Times (Martyrs Fire)
    5. The Coffin Ships
    6. Tragedy's Birth
    7. Cities Carved in Stone

20. 31

    Pink

    Boris

    

    

    Noise rock | Stoner metal

    Tracks:

    1. 決別
    2. Pink ●
    3. スクリーンの女
    4. 別になんでもない
    5. ブラックアウト
    6. Electric
    7. 偽ブレッド
    8. ぬるい炎
    9. 6を3つ
    10. My Machine
    11. 俺を捨てたところ

21. 30

    Annihilation of the Wicked

    Nile

    

    

    Technical death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Dusk Falls Upon the Temple of the Serpent on the Mount of Sunrise
    2. Cast Down the Heretic
    3. Sacrifice Unto Sebek
    4. User-Maat-Re
    5. The Burning Pits of the Duat
    6. Chapter of Obeisance Before Giving Breath to the Inert One in the Presence of the Crescent Shaped Horns
    7. Lashed to the Slave Stick
    8. Spawn of Uamenti
    9. Annihilation of the Wicked ●
    10. Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten

22. 29

    Angel of Retribution

    Judas Priest

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Judas Rising ●
    2. Deal with the Devil
    3. Revolution
    4. Worth Fighting for
    5. Demonizer
    6. Wheels of Fire
    7. Angel
    8. Hellrider
    9. Eulogy
    10. Lochness

23. 28

    Verisäkeet

    Moonsorrow

    

    

    Folk metal | Viking metal

    Tracks:

    1. Karhunkynsi ●
    2. Haaska
    3. Pimeä
    4. Jotunheim
    5. Kaiku

24. 27

    Character

    Dark Tranquility

    

    

    Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. The New Build
    2. Through Smudged Lenses
    3. Out of Nothing
    4. The Endless Feed
    5. Lost to Apathy ●
    6. Mind Matters
    7. One Thought
    8. Dry Run
    9. Am I 1?
    10. Senses Tied
    11. Me Negation

25. 26

    Enemy of God

    Kreator

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Enemy of God
    2. Impossible Brutality
    3. Suicide Terrorist
    4. World Anarchy
    5. Dystopia
    6. Voices of the Dead
    7. Murder Fantasies
    8. When Death Takes Its Dominion
    9. One Evil Comes — A Million Follow
    10. Dying Race Apocalypse
    11. Under a Total Blackened Sky ●
    12. The Ancient Plague

26. 25

    Shovel Headed Kill Machine

    Exodus

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Raze
    2. Deathamphetamine
    3. Karma's Messenger
    4. Shudder to Think
    5. I Am Abomination
    6. Altered Boy ●
    7. Going Going Gone
    8. Now Thy Death Day Come
    9. .44 Magnum Opus
    10. Shovel Headed Kill Machine

27. 24

    Z

    My Morning Jacket

    

    

    Neo-psychedelia

    Tracks:

    1. Worldless Chrorus
    2. It Beats 4 U
    3. Gideon
    4. What a Wonderful Man
    5. Off the Record ●
    6. Into the Woods
    7. Anytime
    8. Lay Low
    9. Knot Comes Loose
    10. Dondante

28. 23

    Blessed Black Wings

    High on Fire

    

    

    Stoner metal | SLudge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Devilution
    2. The Face of Oblivion
    3. Brothers in the Wind
    4. Cometh Down Messiah
    5. Blessed Black Wings
    6. Anointing of Seer
    7. To Cross the Bridge
    8. Silver Back
    9. Sons of Thunder ●

29. 22

    Lullabies to Paralyze

    Queens of the Stone Age

    

    

    Stoner rock | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. This Lullaby
    2. Medication
    3. Everybody Knows That You Are Insane
    4. Tangled up in Plaid
    5. Burn the Witch
    6. In My Head
    7. Little Sister ●
    8. I Never Came
    9. Someone's in the Wolf
    10. The Blood Is Love
    11. Skin on Skin
    12. Broken Box
    13. You Gor a Killer Scene There, Man ...
    14. Long Slow Goodbye

30. 21

    Plans

    Death Cab for Cutie

    

    

    Indie rock | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Marching Bands of Manhattan
    2. Soul Meets Body ●
    3. Summer Skin
    4. Different Names for the Same Thing
    5. I Will Follow You into the Dark
    6. Your Heart Is an Empty Room
    7. Someday You Will Be Loved
    8. Crooked Teeth
    9. What Sarah Said
    10. Brothers on a Hotel Bed
    11. Stable Song

31. 20

    Picaresque

    The Decemberists

    

    

    Progressive folk | Baroque pop

    Tracks:

    1. The Infanta
    2. We Both Go Down Together ●
    3. Eli, the Barrow Boy
    4. The Sporting Life
    5. The Bagman's Gambit
    6. From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea)
    7. Sixteen Military Wives
    8. The Engine Driver
    9. On the Bus Mall
    10. The Mariner's Revenge Song
    11. Of Angels and Angels

32. 19

    The Deep End

    Madrugada

    

    

    Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Kids Are on High Street ●
    2. On Your Side
    3. Hold on to You
    4. Stories from the Streets
    5. Running out of Time
    6. Lost Gospel
    7. Elektro Vakuum
    8. Subterranean Sunlight
    9. Hard to Come Back
    10. Ramona
    11. Slow Builder
    12. Sail Away

33. 18

    Ascendancy

    Trivium

    

    

    Metalcore | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. The End of Everything
    2. Rain
    3. Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr
    4. Drowned and Torn Asunder
    5. Ascendancy
    6. A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation ●
    7. Like Light to the Flies
    8. Dying in Your Arms
    9. The Deceived
    10. Suffocating Sight
    11. Departure
    12. Declaration

34. 17

    Octavarium

    Dream Theater

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Root of All Evil
    2. The Answer Lies Within
    3. These Walls
    4. I Walk Beside You
    5. Panic Attack ●
    6. Never Enough
    7. Sacrificed Sons
    8. Octavarium

35. 16

    Hardcore Superstar

    Hardcore Superstar

    

    

    Hard rock | Glam metal

    Tracks:

    1. Kick on the Upper Class
    2. Bag on Your Head
    3. Last Forever
    4. She's Offbeat
    5. We Don't Celebrate Sundays ●
    6. Hateful
    7. Wild Boys
    8. My Good Reputation
    9. Cry Your Eyes out
    10. Simple Man
    11. Blood on Me
    12. Standin' on the Verge

36. 15

    Those Once Loyal

    Bolt Thrower

    

    

    Death metal

    Tracks:

    1. At First Light
    2. Entrenched
    3. The Killchain ●
    4. Granite Wall
    5. Those One Loyal
    6. Anti-Tank (Dead Armour)
    7. Last Stand of Humanity
    8. Salvo
    9. When Cannons Fade

37. 14

    Deadwing

    Porcupine Tree

    

    

    Progressive rock | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Deadwing
    2. Shallow ●
    3. Lazarus
    4. Halo
    5. Arriving Somewhere but Not Here
    6. Mellotron Scratch
    7. Open Car
    8. Start of Something Beautiful
    9. Glass Arm Shattering

38. 13

    This Godless Endeavor

    Nevermore

    

    

    Progressive metal | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Born
    2. Final Product
    3. My Acid Words
    4. Bittersweet Feast
    5. Sentient 6
    6. Medicated Nation
    7. The Holocaust of Thought
    8. Sell My Heart for Stones
    9. The Psalm of Lydia
    10. A Future Uncertain
    11. This Godless Endeavor ●

39. 12

    An Ånswer Can Be Found

    CKY

    

    

    Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Suddenly Tragic
    2. The Way You Lived
    3. Dressed in Decay
    4. Familiar Realm
    5. All Power to Slaves
    6. Tripled Manic State ●
    7. Behind the Screams
    8. Deceit Is Striking Gold
    9. As the Tables Turn
    10. Sniped
    11. Don't Hold Your Breath

40. 11

    Rapture of the Deep

    Deep Purple

    

    

    Hard rock | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Money Talks
    2. Girls Like That
    3. Wrong Man ●
    4. Rapture of the Deep
    5. Clearly Quite Absurd
    6. Don't Let Go
    7. Back to Back
    8. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
    9. Junkyard Blues
    10. Before Time Began

41. 10

    Tyranny of Souls

    Bruce Dickinson

    

    

    Progressive metal | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Mars Wthin
    2. Abduction
    3. Soul Intruders
    4. Kill Devil Hill
    5. Navigate the Seas of the Sun
    6. River of No Return
    7. Power of the Sun
    8. Devil on a Hog
    9. Believil
    10. A Tyranny of Souls ●

42. 9

    Aerial

    Kate Bush

    

    

    Art pop | Progressive pop

    Tracks:

    1. King of the Mountain
    2. π
    3. Bertie
    4. Mrs. Bartolozzi
    5. How to Be Invisible
    6. Joanni
    7. A Coral Room
    8. Prelude
    9. Prologue
    10. An Architect's Dream
    11. The Painter's Link
    12. Sunset ●
    13. Aerial Tal
    14. Somewhere in Between
    15. Nocturn
    16. Aerial

43. 8

    Paradise Lost

    Paradise Lost

    

    

    Gothic metal | Gothic rock

    Tracks:

    1. Don't Belong ●
    2. Close Your Eyes
    3. Grey
    4. Redshift
    5. Forever After
    6. Sun Fading
    7. Laws of Cause
    8. All You Leave Behind
    9. Accept the Pain
    10. Shine
    11. Spirit
    12. Over the Madness

44. 7

    Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

    Coheed and Cambria

    

    

    Progressive metal | Emo

    Tracks:

    1. Keeping the Blade
    2. Always & Never
    3. Welcome Home ●
    4. Ten Speed (of God's Blood & Burial)
    5. Crossing the Frame
    6. Apollo I: The Writing Writer
    7. Once upon Your Dead Body
    8. Wake up
    9. The Suffering
    10. The Lying Lies & Dirty Secrets of Miss Erica Court
    11. Mother May I
    12. The Willing Well I: Fuel for the Feeding End
    13. The Willing Well II: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
    14. The Willing Well III: Apollo II: The Telling Truth
    15. The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut

45. 6

    From Mars to Sirius

    Gojira

    

    

    Technical death metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ocean Planet
    2. Backbone
    3. From the Sky
    4. Unicorn
    5. Where Dragons Dwell
    6. The Heaviest Matter in the Universe ●
    7. Flying Whales
    8. In the Wilderness
    9. World to Come
    10. From Mars
    11. To Sirius
    12. Global Warming

46. 5

    Out of Exile

    Audioslave

    

    

    Alternative rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Your Time Has Come
    2. Out of Exile
    3. Be Yourself
    4. Doesn't Remind Me
    5. Drown Me Slowly
    6. Heavens Dead
    7. The Worm
    8. Man or Animal
    9. Yesterday to Tomorrow ●
    10. Dandelion
    11. #1 Zero
    12. The Curse

47. 4

    Mezmerize

    System of a Down

    

    

    Progressive metal | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Soldier Side — Intro
    2. B.Y.O.B. ●
    3. Revenga
    4. Cigaro
    5. Radio/Video
    6. This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm on This Song
    7. Violent Pornography
    8. Question!
    9. Sad Statue
    10. Old School Hollywood
    11. Lost in Hollywood

48. 3

    Frances the Mute

    The Mars Volta

    

    

    Progressive rock | Jazz fusion

    Tracks:

    1. Cygnus ... Vismund Cygnus
    2. The Widow
    3. L'Via L'Viaquez ●
    4. Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore
    5. Cassandra Gemini

49. 2

    Robot Hive / Exodus

    Clutch

    

    

    Blues rock | Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Incomparable Mr. Flannery
    2. Burning Beard
    3. Gullah ●
    4. Mice and Gods
    5. Pulaski Skyway
    6. 10001110101
    7. Small Upsetters
    8. Circus Maximus
    9. Tripping the Alarm
    10. 10,000 Witnesses
    11. Land of Pleasant Living
    12. Gravel Road
    13. Who's Been Talking?

50. 1

    Ghost Reveries

    Opeth

    

    

    Progressive metal | Progressive death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ghost of Perdition ●
    2. The Baying of the Hounds
    3. Beneath the Mire
    4. Atonement
    5. Reverie / Harlequin Forest
    6. Hours of Wealth
    7. The Grand Conjuration
    8. Isolation Years